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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was just one link in a chain of events leading to World War I and the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian empire. By 1918, after nearly four hundred years of rule, the Habsburg monarchy was expunged in an instant of history. Remarkably, despite tales of decadence, ethnic indifference, and a failure to modernise, the empire enjoyed a renewed popularity in interwar narratives. Today, it remains a crucial point of reference for Central European identity, evoking nostalgia among the nations that once dismembered it. The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary examines histories, journalism, and literature in the period between world wars to expose both the positive and the negative treatment of the Habsburg monarchy following its dissolution and the powerful influence of fiction and memory over history. Originally published in Polish, Adam Ko?uchowski's study analyses the myriad factors that contributed to this phenomenon. Chief among these were economic depression, widespread authoritarianism on the continent, and the painful rise of aggressive nationalism. Many authors of these narratives were well-known intellectuals who yearned for the high culture and peaceable kingdom of their personal memory. Ko?uchowski contrasts these imaginaries with the causal realities of the empire's failure. He considers the aspirations of Czechs, Poles, Romanians, Hungarians, and Austrians, and their quest for autonomy or domination over their neighbours, coupled with the wave of nationalism spreading across Europe. Ko?uchowski then dissects the reign of the legendary Habsburg monarch, Franz Joseph, and the lasting perceptions that he inspired. To Ko?uchowski, the interwar discourse was a reaction to the monumental change wrought by the dissolution of Austria-Hungary and the fear of a history lost. Those displaced at the empire's end attempted, through collective (and selective) memory, to reconstruct the vision of a once great multinational power. It was an imaginary that would influence future histories of the empire and even became a model for the European Union. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9780822962656 20160614

Austria-Hungary in historiography

Austria-Hungary in essayism and political theory

Austria-Hungary in literary fiction

The empire epitomized: Franz Joseph

Conclusion.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was just one link in a chain of events leading to World War I and the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian empire. By 1918, after nearly four hundred years of rule, the Habsburg monarchy was expunged in an instant of history. Remarkably, despite tales of decadence, ethnic indifference, and a failure to modernise, the empire enjoyed a renewed popularity in interwar narratives. Today, it remains a crucial point of reference for Central European identity, evoking nostalgia among the nations that once dismembered it. The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary examines histories, journalism, and literature in the period between world wars to expose both the positive and the negative treatment of the Habsburg monarchy following its dissolution and the powerful influence of fiction and memory over history. Originally published in Polish, Adam Ko?uchowski's study analyses the myriad factors that contributed to this phenomenon. Chief among these were economic depression, widespread authoritarianism on the continent, and the painful rise of aggressive nationalism. Many authors of these narratives were well-known intellectuals who yearned for the high culture and peaceable kingdom of their personal memory. Ko?uchowski contrasts these imaginaries with the causal realities of the empire's failure. He considers the aspirations of Czechs, Poles, Romanians, Hungarians, and Austrians, and their quest for autonomy or domination over their neighbours, coupled with the wave of nationalism spreading across Europe. Ko?uchowski then dissects the reign of the legendary Habsburg monarch, Franz Joseph, and the lasting perceptions that he inspired. To Ko?uchowski, the interwar discourse was a reaction to the monumental change wrought by the dissolution of Austria-Hungary and the fear of a history lost. Those displaced at the empire's end attempted, through collective (and selective) memory, to reconstruct the vision of a once great multinational power. It was an imaginary that would influence future histories of the empire and even became a model for the European Union. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9780822962656 20160614

This book developed from the proceedings of the First International Academic Conference The Peace of Passarowitz 1718 held on 14-15 November 2008, on the occasion of the 290th Anniversary, in Pozarevac, Serbia--Pref. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9781557535948 20160605

This book developed from the proceedings of the First International Academic Conference The Peace of Passarowitz 1718 held on 14-15 November 2008, on the occasion of the 290th Anniversary, in Pozarevac, Serbia--Pref. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9781557535948 20160605

A keen observer of culture, Czech writer Vladimir Macura (1945-99) devoted a lifetime to illuminating the myths that defined his nation. "The Mystifications of a Nation, " the first book-length translation of Macura's work in English, offers essays deftly analyzing a variety of cultural phenomena that originate, Macura argues, in the "big bang" of the nineteenth-century Czech National Revival, with its celebration of a uniquely Czech identity. In reflections on two centuries of Czech history, he ponders the symbolism in daily life. Bridges, for example--once a force of civilization connecting diverse peoples--became a sign of destruction in World War I. Turning to the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, Macura probes a range of richly symbolic practices, from the naming of the Prague metro system, to the mass gymnastic displays of the Communist period, to post-Velvet Revolution preoccupations with the national anthem. In "The Potato Bug, " he muses on one of the stranger moments in the Cold War--the claim that the United States was deliberately dropping insects from airplanes to wreak havoc on the crops of Czechoslovakia. While attending to the distinctively Czech elements of such phenomena, Macura reveals the larger patterns of Soviet-brand socialism. "We were its cocreators, " he declares, "and its analysis touches us as a scalpel turned on its own body." Writing with erudition, irony, and wit, Macura turns the scalpel on the authoritarian state around him, demythologizing its mythology. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9780299248949 20160605

A keen observer of culture, Czech writer Vladimir Macura (1945-99) devoted a lifetime to illuminating the myths that defined his nation. "The Mystifications of a Nation, " the first book-length translation of Macura's work in English, offers essays deftly analyzing a variety of cultural phenomena that originate, Macura argues, in the "big bang" of the nineteenth-century Czech National Revival, with its celebration of a uniquely Czech identity. In reflections on two centuries of Czech history, he ponders the symbolism in daily life. Bridges, for example--once a force of civilization connecting diverse peoples--became a sign of destruction in World War I. Turning to the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, Macura probes a range of richly symbolic practices, from the naming of the Prague metro system, to the mass gymnastic displays of the Communist period, to post-Velvet Revolution preoccupations with the national anthem. In "The Potato Bug, " he muses on one of the stranger moments in the Cold War--the claim that the United States was deliberately dropping insects from airplanes to wreak havoc on the crops of Czechoslovakia. While attending to the distinctively Czech elements of such phenomena, Macura reveals the larger patterns of Soviet-brand socialism. "We were its cocreators, " he declares, "and its analysis touches us as a scalpel turned on its own body." Writing with erudition, irony, and wit, Macura turns the scalpel on the authoritarian state around him, demythologizing its mythology. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9780299248949 20160605

More Hungarian problems: Gabikovo, the constitution, and the road signs

Czech-Slovak relations

Countdown to the 1992 elections

Slovakia's second revolution: Meiar's triumphant return

Aftermath of the 1992 elections: the breakup of the federation

Human rights in Slovakia

The Slovak state and the Jewish question

Trnava University: assault on academic freedom or dialogue of the deaf?

The microphone episode

Vladimir Meciar

Other Slovak personalities

U.S. policy and Czechoslovakia

Independence and its aftermath: the domestic angle

Independence and its aftermath: the foreign angle

Do videnia, Slovensko.

"An eyewitness account by an American diplomat of the events that led up to Slovakia's independence in 1993. Includes an examination of Slovakia's post-independence development"--Provided by publisher.

By way of prelude

Getting organized in Slovakia

Na slovensku po slovensky: crisis over the language law

The Gulf War and Slovakia

The VPN implodes

Ambassador Shirley Temple Black: the person and the flower

More Hungarian problems: Gabikovo, the constitution, and the road signs

Czech-Slovak relations

Countdown to the 1992 elections

Slovakia's second revolution: Meiar's triumphant return

Aftermath of the 1992 elections: the breakup of the federation

Human rights in Slovakia

The Slovak state and the Jewish question

Trnava University: assault on academic freedom or dialogue of the deaf?

The microphone episode

Vladimir Meciar

Other Slovak personalities

U.S. policy and Czechoslovakia

Independence and its aftermath: the domestic angle

Independence and its aftermath: the foreign angle

Do videnia, Slovensko.

"An eyewitness account by an American diplomat of the events that led up to Slovakia's independence in 1993. Includes an examination of Slovakia's post-independence development"--Provided by publisher.

Examines questions of identity and self-understanding in six life-careers in the Austrian intellectual and political elite. This title also presents fresh perspective on the six examined individuals, whose scholarly, artistic, and bureaucratic careers are placed in a political context. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9781557534644 20160528

Examines questions of identity and self-understanding in six life-careers in the Austrian intellectual and political elite. This title also presents fresh perspective on the six examined individuals, whose scholarly, artistic, and bureaucratic careers are placed in a political context. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9781557534644 20160528